Harold Budd and Brian Eno - best song, not title name

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Ambient 2: The Plateaux Of Mirror
The Pearl

Poll Results

Option	Votes
8 An Echo Of Night	2
1 First Light	1
10 Failing Light	1
9 Wind In Lonely Fences	1
7 Their Memories	1
6 Not Yet Remembered	1
3 The Plateaux Of Mirror	1
4 Against The Sky	1
9 Foreshadowed	0
6 Dark-Eyed Sister	0
10 An Echo Of Night	0
5 Lost In The Humming Air	0
3 The Silver Ball	0
2 A Stream With Bright Fish	0
1 Late October	0
8 Among Fields Of Crystal	0
7 The Chill Air	0
5 An Arc Of Doves	0
4 Above Chiangmai	0
2 Steal Away	0
11 Still Return	0

― CaptainLorax, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 20:43 (seventeen years ago)

I have to download both these albums to decide my favorite song because I don't want to dig through my cd drawer (which happens to also be my sock drawer).

― CaptainLorax, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 22:54 (seventeen years ago)

I voted for First Light without having heard The Pearl, which I must get.

I actually saw Harold Budd perform live last week (http://www.ocmevents.org/events/autumn%2007/harold_budd_a07.html). It was beautiful.

― caek, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 23:43 (seventeen years ago)

I voted for "Their Memories." That song has always struck me as being the standout track on an album of exceptional tracks.

― novaheat, Thursday, 11 October 2007 00:25 (seventeen years ago)

"Against the Sky" from the Pearl has always been my favourite. The whole album(s) are gorgeous, but that one song just sets my mind into a still, mirror-lake landscape with drifting fog. Also, it has some fond memories from long ago.

― Trayce, Thursday, 11 October 2007 00:46 (seventeen years ago)

I like 4-6 on plateaux of mirrors a lot

― CaptainLorax, Thursday, 11 October 2007 22:27 (seventeen years ago)

or maybe its 5-7

― CaptainLorax, Thursday, 11 October 2007 22:28 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Thursday, 11 October 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

8 An Echo Of Night

= 8 THE PEARL, which is what im voting for.

― fies, Thursday, 11 October 2007 23:20 (seventeen years ago)

and my courtesy bump. I picked #6 on the first album.

― CaptainLorax, Friday, 12 October 2007 04:38 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Friday, 12 October 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

this poll didn't go on long enough I guess

― CaptainLorax, Saturday, 13 October 2007 09:22 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, this poll should have been longer. I wanted to break out these two and listen again. "Not Yet Remembered" (?The one with the wordless vocals) is beautiful. I also like "Late October" from The Pearl.

― Joe, Saturday, 13 October 2007 12:58 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

love plateaux so much its ridiculous. i watch a fair few silent films which occasionally have bad recently recorded scores attached. Plateaux is THE perfect thing to listen to whilst the shitty scores are muted.

― Jamie_ATP, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 22:57 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

Had I seen this many moons (and melodies) ago, I'd have gone with "Still Return," the final track on The Pearl. It seems to be a revisitation of the opener "Late October," slowed down or missing a few notes. It got no votes here. But it's the most lovely track on a most lovely album.

― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 12:06 (fourteen years ago)

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